# Cuts, lacerations at Dean Pipito Water Features LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016065597` · 6/23/2016 · RIVER HILLS, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dean Pipito Water Features LLC
- **Location:** 2420 W. Dean Court, RIVER HILLS, WISCONSIN, 53217
- **NAICS:** 712130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing stones on each side of a waterfall when his hand became pinched between an excavator bucket and the 'thumb' of the excavator as he was undoing a strap for setting the stone.  His hand was lacerated and bruised.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*